Storybuilder is a software tool developed by safety specialists for
the Ministry Of Social Affairs and Employment (The Netherlands). It
supports occupational and major accident analysis, investigation,
inspection and identification of ways to improve safety. The
software and database are made freely available to users on request.
The database contains reported reportable serious
accidents investigated by the Dutch Labour Inspectorate. These
constitute an estimated 1% of occupational accidents in The
Netherlands, being the most serious ones. The database contains
accidents from the period 1998-Feb2004, and 2007-2009. In total
there are now 17860 unique accidents with 18506 victims in the 36
bowties. The database can be viewed in English or Dutch.

The purpose of Storybuilder is to help with:
* Learning how occupational accidents are caused
* Identifying dominant causes with the purpose to control them in
the workplace
* Incident investigation

The purpose of this
web site is to provide
support to Storybuilder software users. We've provided a number of resources here to
help you report and resolve problems, suggest improvements and learn
about using Storybuilder.

Additional download support on Downloads page:

Storybuilder User Manual (EN, NL, FR)

Storybuilder printable software help in English

Quick start for Expert mode (EN)

Lite help accident data entry (EN , NL, FR)

Scientific background, including building rules

Glossary of box codes

Useful data:

Facts and figures sheets in English and Dutch covering over 9000 accidents

In 2004-2006 a team was formed for analysing
occupational accident investigation reports made available by the
Dutch Labour Inspectorate. In this period the software tool
StoryBuilder was developed to support the development of an events
structure.

Accidents were analysed in order to build cause and
effect event structures according to strict building rules. The key
components of these structures are safety barriers and their modes
of failure which were identified from the accident investigations by
applying a set of building rules.

The accidents analysed are reportable occupational
accidents between 1998 and February 2004. Around 2000 serious
accidents are investigated per year by the Dutch Labour Inspectorate
(an estimated 1% of all occupational accidents, taking into account
underreporting). Data are stored in a data base called GISAI (Geļntegreerd
InformatieSysteem ArbeidsInspectie). It contains information on
reported accidents and investigations of accidents which are
reportable according to article 9 of the Dutch Working Conditions
Act if they are occupational accidents resulting in serious physical
or mental injury (death within 1 year, permanent injury, in-patient
treatment in hospital within 24 hours).

The nature of these accidents has been described in
earlier publications available in Downloads